From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

No, no; I think the room is full of people. (FIRST SERVANT: They will come, they will come, by and by....) Lord! Lord! It is not happiness that has come into the house.... One may not speak, but if I could say what I know... (SECOND SERVANT: It was you who found them before the gate?) Why, yes! why, yes! it was I who found them. The porter says it was he who saw them first; but it was I who waked them. He was sleeping on his face and would not get up.--And now he comes saying, "It was I who saw them first." Is that just?--See, I burned myself lighting a lamp to go down cellar.--Now what was I going to do down cellar?--I can't remember any more what I was going to do down cellar.--At any rate I got up very early; it was not yet very light; I said to myself, I will go across the courtyard, and then I will open the gate. Good; I go down the stairs on tiptoe, and I open the gate as if it were an ordinary gate.... My God! My God! What do I see? Divine a little what I see!...

The Old Servant Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

Rehearse The Old Servant's monologue